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Oil Tankers & OBO's

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When I left the RN I joined Mobile Oil Tankers as a Second Engineer. A few photos of some of the ships I served in.
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they look big girls Keith , did you enjoy your time on them :?: as you hear differing tales of life bordering between boredom and cost cutting on services ....
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The Mobil Pinnacle was the largest I was in. We had bicycles to get around the upper deck & a lift in the Engine Room.
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I readily believe that Keith, they look huge but how on earth did you maintain a vertical presence in a rough sea , I would probably have locked myself away unless I was desperately needed :oops:
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My experience in the MN was, shall I say, an eye opener. As a 2nd Engineer I was also responsible for the electrics, no Electrical Engineers like the RN.
Trips were 4 mths on & 2mths off, sounds good but for the 4 mths onboard there was work 24/7. Food & accommodation were excellent, pay was pretty good too.
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If it suited and you were happy Keith " why not" I love anything Mechanical [ runs in the blood] and to my fathers permanent horror I was always taking things apart and reassembling them to see how they worked [ and very few didn't when reassembled ] and I consider myself a practical person so I'm sure I would have been a dab hand at being one had my life not taken a different path :cry:

My other love in life was anything to do with water ....in it ..under it ..on top of it , but again it wasn't until latter on in life that these dreams became reality ......still better than never at all eh :)
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One advantage with Mobil shipping was that I could & did take my wife to sea.
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Ahh and she had no meals to cook either Eh Keith , so win ...win for her ?
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Just found a web site that lists all Mobil tankers, it is AUke Visser's Mobil Tankers & Tugs. I was able to print copies to make up history of my time with Mobil.
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A nice oicture of my last sea going ship, the Matco Thames taking on a cargo of crude oil from the North Sea.
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